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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Chinese Artist Song Dong’s first major London exhibition Waste Not is now on at the Barbican Centre. The entry is free and the show runs until 12 June this summer. The exhibition is something out of the ordinary indeed. I walk around the endless piles and stacks of over 10,000 of the artist’s mother’s belongings…

The Department of Health recently released new official advice regarding red meat consumption. They said new studies had shown cutting down on red meat would reduce the risk of cancer. In spite of this advice, according to last week’s poll here on this blog, nearly 40 percent of the readers who voted said that they…

Official advice from the Department of Health earlier this week states that cutting down on your consumption of red meat will reduce the risk of cancer. Although speculations have been around for a long time, not least in the ‘health food’ circles, it is the first time official advice like this is released in the…

Canal boats driven by ex-soldiers will be taking passengers to the Olympic Park this summer. The journey will take between 35- 50 minutes and the boats will depart from Limehouse Basin in the South and Tottenham Hale in North London. Many of the so called “water chariots” will be operated by ex-members of the Armed Forces.…

Author Graham Harvey writes for the Telegraph and the Guardian and he is the Agricultural Editor of BBC Radio 4. Briefly explained, We Want Real Food, 2008, (Constable) is about how our soils, thanks to the way we now run our farms, are lacking important chemical components such as Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. This, says Harvey, is “a big issue” and…

Should aspiring journalists express their, perhaps controversial, opinions on WordPress and Twitter? “It’s not a good idea,” says Press Gazette Editor Dominic Ponsford. “I am going to disagree with you here,” says Jon Bernstein, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman. Now, had this been a cartoon you’d see question marks rising above the students in…

Think your job is stressful? Try running one of London’s busiest venues. Here, on ‘a good summer day’ when, if stuck in London, all you wanna do is leave, you are in charge of the bar and restaurant feeding and watering the 2000-odd people visiting Shakespeare’s Globe every day. Throw in a couple of crazy…